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Archived Tee - 2012-02-05
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SHE-FURY: All this week, February 5th - 11th, we're featuring designs created by artists of the female persuasion. Women represent only a small fraction of our overall artist roster. We hope focusing attention on them will inspire other aspiring designers, male and female, to start creating and find success working as an independent artist.
Tell us a bit about this design.
Love Robot
About the artist
rebekieb
SHE-FURY: All this week, February 5th - 11th, we're featuring designs created by artists of the female persuasion. Women represent only a small fraction of our overall artist roster. We hope focusing attention on them will inspire other aspiring designers, male and female, to start creating and find success working as an independent artist.
Tell us a bit about this design.
This was originally a design I drew for a wintery holiday card for my friends and family. Since I live in the big city, my winter experiences run towards the cold, dirty and gray… somehow this lead me to think about robots, and how cute and warm the Disney character Wall-E was despite living in a post apocalyptic world… BAM. Adorable robot in the snow.
Where are you from?
New York City, baby.
What do you want TeeFury fans to know about you?
This is my first solo tee shirt print and I’m so excited! Here’s hoping that this is only the first of many more – keep a look out, I’m not done yet. You can find more of my art on my website: jackalope-art.com!
What do you absolutely not want them to find out?
I’m actually part of a secret alien intelligence unit here on earth to gather information regarding your tee shirt and sandwich preferences.
Name a few of your favorite things.
I enjoy the beautiful complexity of the world around me, the unbelievable vastness of space and time, turkey sandwiches and blue Col-Erase pencils. Also, bird watching.
What kind of art did you make as a kid?
I was lucky enough to have a lot of art exposure throughout my childhood, so I got to play with all sorts of mediums, but it all started with drawing. Both my mum and my granddad did a lot of drawing with me, and being an only child that’s what I filled my day up with. When I started keeping sketchbooks I was strictly a fantasy kid – all fairies and dragons.
What is your favorite thing about robots?
They’re shiny and they’ve got cool dance moves.
Sandwich vs. pizza: which would win the battle?
Sandwich would inevitably win the day – I mean, with a sandwich you can have a filling egg and cheese on a roll for breakfast, a light veggie sandwich for lunch, a monstrous pastrami sandwich for dinner FOLLOWED by an ice cream sandwich. Pizza, whether it be a triangle slice, square slice or pizza pocket is still just pizza.
Describe your favorite shirt that you own, and why you like it so much.
I worked at a comic shop and while cleaning out the basement I found an old Akira tee shirt – I’ve never seen another one like it. It’s simple: black with a nice close up of Tetsuo and AKIRA in big letters underneath. Now, faded and threadbare, I wash it carefully and wear it as my “formal” tee shirt whenever I go to nerdy parties. It was an adventure finding it, and I feel ready for anything when I wear it.
Which is better, gaming, reading, or watching movies? Name your favorite title in your chosen medium.
Ooh, reading. Reading is the most interactive entertainment for my brains, and it can be done anywhere and anytime so long as one has a light source. Also, you don’t usually get mugged for reading a paperback on the subway. My favorite book is Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’, which is both beautiful and terrifying.
What inspires your work?
I’m really inspired by a combination of nature and urban environments – I love looking at the tiny worlds that arise out of a clump of moss or in rock pools then imagining how they can be combined. The artists M. C. Escher, Brian Froud and Moebius have all had a huge impact on my drawing since I was a kid.
Any shout outs?
Yes! To Anna-Maria Jung, amazing illustrator, brilliant collaborator and persistently awesome person. She showed me this whole crazy tee-shirt world and the projects we work on together are totally rad. Also, a shout out goes to turkey and swiss sandwiches for being so very, very delicious.
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aeillill said 67 weeks ago
I'd be buying this if they had female plus sizes since I like it on the Turquoise not the slate :(
dfunk29 said 67 weeks ago
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dfunk29 said 67 weeks ago
Mario! Didn't see it at first. Love it!!
mariposa19 said 67 weeks ago
Sharky said 67 weeks ago
That being said, I love robots... and the anatomy of this robot I like. But seeing as money is tight, I'm going to have to sleep on it.
Love the side art!
turkeymoo89 said 67 weeks ago
SciFiRef said 67 weeks ago
I'd love to have the fox+moon+tree side art, but I'm gonna sleep on the robot...
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Relatela said 67 weeks ago
I'm an 18-year-old Caucasian University girl and I'd wear it